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The Best 2018 Marijuana Company Penny Stocks

Marijuana Penny Stock Trading brokers are now becoming cheaper thus making it easier for retail investors to invest their savings. It can be frustrating to find a good trading platform and depends on the type of stocks you plan to trade (whether pinks sheets or OTC), the amount of capital available to you, and how frequently you trade. Each week I receive dozens of emails inquiring about which brokerage to use but it is a challenging question to answer since it involves multiple factors.

Marijuana Penny Stocks going into 2018

3 Important Things to Look Out For

Surcharges: Depending on your broker, most add surcharges to shares less than a dollar. TradeKing charges an additional 1 cent for every share below $2 meaning that if you buy 5,000 shares it will cost you an additional $50. If you don’t keep close watch on those small charges they can easily add up and eat into your potential profits. You should choose a brokerage with a flat commission rate or one that offers sizeable discounts on large orders. For instance eTrade, Charles Schwab, and TD Ameritrade all offer either flat fees or massive discounts and no hidden fees.

Trading Restrictions: You should be capable of trading shares through an online platform and be wary of firms that force you to make your trades over the phone. Some brokers have restrictions in place especially with regards to issues such as short selling your penny stocks.

Volume Restrictions: The number of shares you are ideally allowed to trade is unlimited.

Different brokers have different account minimums, trade restrictions, commissions, and fees. Other important considerations include market maker routes, executions, software/trading platforms, and the quality of customer service. The greatest hindrance is not having sufficient starting capital and brokerages don’t like to deal with poor traders. If you live outside the U.S. in a country such as the U.K. or Australia, finding a penny stock friendly broker will be harder.

Marijuana Penny Stocks have had a negative reputation over the years and for good reason. The vast majority (90%) of those companies represent poor investments that are not something anyone would like to put in a 401k. Most of them are simply shell companies created with a sole purpose of ‘pump and dump’.

Marijuana Penny Stock Trading going into 2018

Etrade

Etrade is an obvious top choice overall since it charges a flat fee and offers outstanding trading software. Currently, Etrade has a promotion where traders with accounts of over $10,000 can trade free for the first 60 days.

The minimum deposit for a cash account is $500 and $2,000 for a margin account. Discounts are offered on large orders and penny stocks have no surcharges. Great research investment tools are available and the executions are very fast.

It is best suited for traders that trade frequently due to the tiered pricing structure, meaning that it is not recommended for non-active investors since they will have to pay additional commissions. The customer service is below average when compared to others while 24/7 phone and email support is available. The basics of the stock market are taught through video lessons.

The major limitation is that it does not accept traders from some countries. It is currently Tim Sykes favorite broker.

Interactive Brokers

Interactive Brokers might have poor customer support but are still your best bet if you plan to short shares priced below $2. They have some of the best borrows for Cannabis Penny Stock Trading even though shares for shorting go fast.

Fees are levied for canceling or modifying an order and a monthly inactivity fee of $20 is charged. Unless you are a day trader, the commissions can be expensive. Interactive Brokers traders comprise mainly of massive institutions and high net worth individuals.

Unlike Etrade, Interactive Brokers accepts international traders and does not discriminate against particular countries.

TD Ameritrade

This broker has been operating for more than 40 years. In 2009, Ameritrade took over Thinkorswim. The broker has a solid trading platform with helpful charting tools as well as tutorial options to help you get started. In spite of this, their trading platform has experienced minor technical errors in the past leaving those customers that were looking to exit trades quite angry.

TD Ameritrade has no inactivity or monthly fees making it perfect for long term investors. Trade execution is great and the borrows are decent if you would like to short penny stocks. The broker offers free paper trading demo, which is great for beginners looking to test strategies and get a feel of the market.

The main drawback of TD Ameritrade is the $9.99 fee, which is much higher than that charged by other brokers. It can be argued that by charging more than the competition they are able to offer better customer support or it could be that they are greedy like the rest of the players on Wall Street.

SureTrader

One of the best things about SureTrader is the chance to bypass the pattern day trader rule since it is located offshore in the Bahamas. The pattern day trader rule is a rule set by the SEC that does not permit traders with accounts below $25,000 from executing over 4 or 5 day trades over a 5-day business period. This can be quite annoying and makes it hard for traders to grow their accounts fast but still protects day traders from losing money.

Recently, SureTrader’s CEO, Guy Gentille was indicted by the SEC for manipulating penny stocks. It should be noted that while SureTrader was not involved in the schemes this scandal has tainted their reputation. Hearing such news about a company’s CEO would make any trader feel uneasy and for this reason, trading over $2,000 with them is not recommended.

The account minimum is $500 and the charges are $4.95 for every trade for up to 1,000 shares but an ECN fee of .003 is charged for routing. The leverage currently offered is 6-1 and future plans are to increase this to 20-1.

ChoiceTrade

The information pertaining to this company available on Google is very limited and while the company was established in 2000, it does not even have a Wikipedia page.

ChoiceTrade is better suited to OTC stocks and only costs $7 for every OTC trade. The broker has a volume surcharge of 1 percent for any trade over 500,000 shares. There is no account minimum but an inactivity fee of $30 is charged for every quarter.

However, this is not how it works. Patience is needed and you should paper trade for not less than 3 months. Keep in mind that you need to learn before your earn. Once you are ready, it is advisable that you start trading with not less than $2,000. Interactive Brokers and Etrade are the top 2 online penny stock brokers with great reputations.

Marijuana Penny Stock Trading going into 2018

The Best 2017 Penny Stock Brokers

Penny stocks brokers are now becoming cheaper thus making it easier for retail investors to invest their savings. It can be frustrating to find a good trading platform and depends on the type of stocks you plan to trade (whether pinks sheets or OTC), the amount of capital available to you, and how frequently you trade. Each week I receive dozens of emails inquiring about which brokerage to use but it is a challenging question to answer since it involves multiple factors.

3 Important Things to Look Out For

Surcharges: Depending on your broker, most add surcharges to shares less than a dollar. TradeKing charges an additional 1 cent for every share below $2 meaning that if you buy 5,000 shares it will cost you an additional $50. If you don't keep close watch on those small charges they can easily add up and eat into your potential profits. You should choose a brokerage with a flat commission rate or one that offers sizeable discounts on large orders. For instance eTrade, Charles Schwab, and TD Ameritrade all offer either flat fees or massive discounts and no hidden fees.

Trading Restrictions: You should be capable of trading shares through an online platform and be wary of firms that force you to make your trades over the phone. Some brokers have restrictions in place especially with regards to issues such as short selling your penny stocks.

Volume Restrictions: The number of shares you are ideally allowed to trade is unlimited.

Different brokers have different account minimums, trade restrictions, commissions, and fees. Other important considerations include market maker routes, executions, software/trading platforms, and the quality of customer service. The greatest hindrance is not having sufficient starting capital and brokerages don't like to deal with poor traders. If you live outside the U.S. in a country such as the U.K. or Australia, finding a penny stock friendly broker will be harder.

Penny stocks have had a negative reputation over the years and for good reason. The vast majority (90%) of those companies represent poor investments that are not something anyone would like to put in a 401k. Most of them are simply shell companies created with a sole purpose of 'pump and dump'.

Etrade

Etrade is an obvious top choice overall since it charges a flat fee and offers outstanding trading software. Currently, Etrade has a promotion where traders with accounts of over $10,000 can trade free for the first 60 days.

The minimum deposit for a cash account is $500 and $2,000 for a margin account. Discounts are offered on large orders and penny stocks have no surcharges. Great research investment tools are available and the executions are very fast.

It is best suited for traders that trade frequently due to the tiered pricing structure, meaning that it is not recommended for non-active investors since they will have to pay additional commissions. The customer service is below average when compared to others while 24/7 phone and email support is available. The basics of the stock market are taught through video lessons.

The major limitation is that it does not accept traders from some countries. It is currently Tim Sykes favorite broker.

Interactive Brokers

Interactive Brokers might have poor customer support but are still your best bet if you plan to short shares priced below $2. They have some of the best borrows for stocks even though shares for shorting go fast.

The trading platform is hard to learn and is not recommended for beginner investors. The $10,000 account minimum locks out most retail traders. Interactive Brokers has a plat pricing structure of $0.005 for every share traded depending on volume.

Fees are levied for canceling or modifying an order and a monthly inactivity fee of $20 is charged. Unless you are a day trader, the commissions can be expensive. Interactive Brokers traders comprise mainly of massive institutions and high net worth individuals.

Unlike Etrade, Interactive Brokers accepts international traders and does not discriminate against particular countries.

TD Ameritrade

This broker has been operating for more than 40 years. In 2009, Ameritrade took over Thinkorswim. The broker has a solid trading platform with helpful charting tools as well as tutorial options to help you get started. In spite of this, their trading platform has experienced minor technical errors in the past leaving those customers that were looking to exit trades quite angry.

The broker has great, 24/7 customer support. You can have your emails replied to within as little as 30 minutes. TD Ameritrade has no minimum account deposit and no surcharges are levied on shares priced less than $5.

TD Ameritrade has no inactivity or monthly fees making it perfect for long term investors. Trade execution is great and the borrows are decent if you would like to short penny stocks. The broker offers free paper trading demo, which is great for beginners looking to test strategies and get a feel of the market.

The main drawback of TD Ameritrade is the $9.99 fee, which is much higher than that charged by other brokers. It can be argued that by charging more than the competition they are able to offer better customer support or it could be that they are greedy like the rest of the players on Wall Street.

SureTrader

One of the best things about SureTrader is the chance to bypass the pattern day trader rule since it is located offshore in the Bahamas. The pattern day trader rule is a rule set by the SEC that does not permit traders with accounts below $25,000 from executing over 4 or 5 day trades over a 5-day business period. This can be quite annoying and makes it hard for traders to grow their accounts fast but still protects day traders from losing money.

SureTrader has relatively poor customer support since it has very few customer support representatives to service all of its clients many of whom are inexperienced that don't even know how to place orders. SureTrader is a small company and according to their LinkedIn profile, the have only about 6 employees.

Recently, SureTrader's CEO, Guy Gentille was indicted by the SEC for manipulating penny stocks. It should be noted that while SureTrader was not involved in the schemes this scandal has tainted their reputation. Hearing such news about a company's CEO would make any trader feel uneasy and for this reason, trading over $2,000 with them is not recommended.

The account minimum is $500 and the charges are $4.95 for every trade for up to 1,000 shares but an ECN fee of .003 is charged for routing. The leverage currently offered is 6-1 and future plans are to increase this to 20-1.

Hard to short stocks enjoy good borrows and a massive short sell list of 10,000 symbols is available. It is a great option for the penny stock traders outside the US who have limited capital and who cannot afford or are not able to open accounts with the more reputable brokers such as Etrade.

ChoiceTrade

The information pertaining to this company available on Google is very limited and while the company was established in 2000, it does not even have a Wikipedia page.

ChoiceTrade is better suited to OTC stocks and only costs $7 for every OTC trade. The broker has a volume surcharge of 1 percent for any trade over 500,000 shares. There is no account minimum but an inactivity fee of $30 is charged for every quarter.

ChoiceTrade's free web platform is a bit too basic and you have to pay $15 monthly to access the advanced platform. ChoiceTrade offers promotion codes to new clients on rare occasions.

Too many people are eager to start day trading and especially teenagers. People will see Instagram photos of successful traders advertising their lavish lifestyle, traveling to various beautiful and exotic location and want to be like them. They want to start making money immediately.

However, this is not how it works. Patience is needed and you should paper trade for not less than 3 months. Keep in mind that you need to learn before your earn. Once you are ready, it is advisable that you start trading with not less than $2,000. Interactive Brokers and Etrade are the top 2 online penny stock brokers with great reputations.

Cannabis Penny Stock Trading going into 2018 2018

So far as I can tell, President Donald Trump has done little to change the circumstances that led him to declare in April 2016 that the U.S. was headed for "a very massive recession." His promise of "big league" tax reform has been described by a lobbyist as "a big nothing burger."

Trump's opinion as a candidate could be of importance to you as an investor. He said last year: "It's a terrible time right now to invest in the stock market."

Hear! Hear!

If Trump was right then, his conclusion would seem to be even more valid now.

Today's cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio, or CAPE, is 29.27, as compared to an already high 25.92 in April of last year when Trump warned that the market was dangerous.

Under sane and sound conditions, the performance of individual stocks is determined by the execution of their business plans - not by political authorities or the unelected mandarins at the Federal Reserve.

As they talk about "draining the swamp" of crony capitalism, politicians should not be manipulating your stock portfolio. But they are. Or at least they are trying.

Historical Bubbles

I have made a hobby of studying past stock market manias looking for clues to help you get a better view of when the current bubble may end, and the likely consequences. As you know, we have not experienced sane and sound conditions for years.

Quite the contrary. As you are aware, we are in the midst of the biggest stock bubble in American history. In all probability, it is the biggest stock bubble in human history.

Some might suppose that the Wall Street market crash of 1929 ended the biggest bubble ever. It was the first stock mania in the era of American hegemony. The Allied victory in World War I, in conjunction with the impairment of British financial capabilities, set the stage for euphoric optimism in the Roaring Twenties.

President Herbert Hoover, who was praised by economist John Maynard Keynes as the only person to emerge from the Versailles Peace Conference with his reputation enhanced, was widely despised for causing the Great Depression. It is now forgotten that the worldwide depression supposedly started by Hoover's inability to head off the stock market collapse of 1929 was already underway as early as 1927.

Commodity-producing economies on the periphery, such as Argentina, Australia and Brazil, along with troubled European economies, notably Germany, had already sunk into depression.

The excess capacity in commodity production, stimulated by the breakdown of trade in World War I, depressed prices for producers.

This commodity depression was reflected in the crash of the London stock market, which mainly capitalized the operations of hard and soft commodity producers throughout the British Empire, and preceded Wall Street's October 1929 plunge by a month.

An Inescapable Bubble

Weakness in commodities is likely to precede the next big crash. Of course, that opens the door to trouble at almost any time. Industrial commodities, particularly iron, copper and oil, have been chronically weak.

Unlike the run-up to the 1929 crash, the current weakness in commodity prices is mainly attributable to the opening of the Chinese economy, in conjunction with the quantitative easing policies of the Fed and central banks in other advanced economies.

Those actions resulted in the lowest interest rates seen in 5,000 years! Add in the demand from China, ramped up by promiscuous credit expansion, and you have a recipe for massive commodity expansion and overcapacity.

China consumed more cement between 2011 and 2013 than what was used in the United States in the entire 20th century. Similarly exaggerated demand for iron, copper and other industrial commodities underpinned huge expansions of capacity and debt levels.

A recent report by Andrew Brown, partner for macro and strategy at ShoreVest Capital Partners, concludes that it is China's turn to deflate its credit excesses. These are arguably the most extreme in history. China created debt equivalent to 139% of its gross domestic product between the first quarter of 2009 and the third quarter of 2014 when Chinese growth peaked. This debt explosion was far in excess of the debt created in other major credit bubbles around the globe.

China's excess credit, as measured by the Bank for International Settlements, is equivalent to about $3.1 trillion. The bubble is unquestionably a feature of current stock markets.

A Crash Is Coming

Once a bubble has been inflated, I know of no example where one was calmly deflated, short of a crash. Of course, that doesn't mean that everyone must be equally affected.

Note that some experts have suggested that the late 1990s dot-com boom was a bigger bubble than today because the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio for the Nasdaq in 1999 was higher. As true as that statistic is, it paints a false picture. The reason?

Over the last 18 years, the powers that be have tweaked accounting standards to permit companies a greater latitude in declaring fanciful earnings. The result?

If you adjusted the earnings of S&P 500 companies to reflect the generally accepted accounting principles in force in 1999, today's earnings would shrivel by at least half.

That would make the market about two times more expensive than it already is. So a P/E of 29 today, using 1999's accounting standards, would be 58 or higher!

Prudence suggests backing out of unhedged passive long investments in the U.S. market.

The Best 2018 Marijuana Company Penny Stocks

Marijuana Penny Stock Trading brokers are now becoming cheaper thus making it easier for retail investors to invest their savings. It can be frustrating to find a good trading platform and depends on the type of stocks you plan to trade (whether pinks sheets or OTC), the amount of capital available to you, and how frequently you trade. Each week I receive dozens of emails inquiring about which brokerage to use but it is a challenging question to answer since it involves multiple factors.

Marijuana Penny Stocks going into 2018

3 Important Things to Look Out For

Surcharges: Depending on your broker, most add surcharges to shares less than a dollar. TradeKing charges an additional 1 cent for every share below $2 meaning that if you buy 5,000 shares it will cost you an additional $50. If you don’t keep close watch on those small charges they can easily add up and eat into your potential profits. You should choose a brokerage with a flat commission rate or one that offers sizeable discounts on large orders. For instance eTrade, Charles Schwab, and TD Ameritrade all offer either flat fees or massive discounts and no hidden fees.

Trading Restrictions: You should be capable of trading shares through an online platform and be wary of firms that force you to make your trades over the phone. Some brokers have restrictions in place especially with regards to issues such as short selling your penny stocks.

Volume Restrictions: The number of shares you are ideally allowed to trade is unlimited.

Different brokers have different account minimums, trade restrictions, commissions, and fees. Other important considerations include market maker routes, executions, software/trading platforms, and the quality of customer service. The greatest hindrance is not having sufficient starting capital and brokerages don’t like to deal with poor traders. If you live outside the U.S. in a country such as the U.K. or Australia, finding a penny stock friendly broker will be harder.

Marijuana Penny Stocks have had a negative reputation over the years and for good reason. The vast majority (90%) of those companies represent poor investments that are not something anyone would like to put in a 401k. Most of them are simply shell companies created with a sole purpose of ‘pump and dump’.

Marijuana Penny Stock Trading going into 2018

Etrade

Etrade is an obvious top choice overall since it charges a flat fee and offers outstanding trading software. Currently, Etrade has a promotion where traders with accounts of over $10,000 can trade free for the first 60 days.

The minimum deposit for a cash account is $500 and $2,000 for a margin account. Discounts are offered on large orders and penny stocks have no surcharges. Great research investment tools are available and the executions are very fast.

It is best suited for traders that trade frequently due to the tiered pricing structure, meaning that it is not recommended for non-active investors since they will have to pay additional commissions. The customer service is below average when compared to others while 24/7 phone and email support is available. The basics of the stock market are taught through video lessons.

The major limitation is that it does not accept traders from some countries. It is currently Tim Sykes favorite broker.

Interactive Brokers

Interactive Brokers might have poor customer support but are still your best bet if you plan to short shares priced below $2. They have some of the best borrows for Cannabis Penny Stock Trading even though shares for shorting go fast.

Fees are levied for canceling or modifying an order and a monthly inactivity fee of $20 is charged. Unless you are a day trader, the commissions can be expensive. Interactive Brokers traders comprise mainly of massive institutions and high net worth individuals.

Unlike Etrade, Interactive Brokers accepts international traders and does not discriminate against particular countries.

TD Ameritrade

This broker has been operating for more than 40 years. In 2009, Ameritrade took over Thinkorswim. The broker has a solid trading platform with helpful charting tools as well as tutorial options to help you get started. In spite of this, their trading platform has experienced minor technical errors in the past leaving those customers that were looking to exit trades quite angry.

TD Ameritrade has no inactivity or monthly fees making it perfect for long term investors. Trade execution is great and the borrows are decent if you would like to short penny stocks. The broker offers free paper trading demo, which is great for beginners looking to test strategies and get a feel of the market.

The main drawback of TD Ameritrade is the $9.99 fee, which is much higher than that charged by other brokers. It can be argued that by charging more than the competition they are able to offer better customer support or it could be that they are greedy like the rest of the players on Wall Street.

SureTrader

One of the best things about SureTrader is the chance to bypass the pattern day trader rule since it is located offshore in the Bahamas. The pattern day trader rule is a rule set by the SEC that does not permit traders with accounts below $25,000 from executing over 4 or 5 day trades over a 5-day business period. This can be quite annoying and makes it hard for traders to grow their accounts fast but still protects day traders from losing money.

Recently, SureTrader’s CEO, Guy Gentille was indicted by the SEC for manipulating penny stocks. It should be noted that while SureTrader was not involved in the schemes this scandal has tainted their reputation. Hearing such news about a company’s CEO would make any trader feel uneasy and for this reason, trading over $2,000 with them is not recommended.

The account minimum is $500 and the charges are $4.95 for every trade for up to 1,000 shares but an ECN fee of .003 is charged for routing. The leverage currently offered is 6-1 and future plans are to increase this to 20-1.

ChoiceTrade

The information pertaining to this company available on Google is very limited and while the company was established in 2000, it does not even have a Wikipedia page.

ChoiceTrade is better suited to OTC stocks and only costs $7 for every OTC trade. The broker has a volume surcharge of 1 percent for any trade over 500,000 shares. There is no account minimum but an inactivity fee of $30 is charged for every quarter.

However, this is not how it works. Patience is needed and you should paper trade for not less than 3 months. Keep in mind that you need to learn before your earn. Once you are ready, it is advisable that you start trading with not less than $2,000. Interactive Brokers and Etrade are the top 2 online penny stock brokers with great reputations.

Marijuana Penny Stock Trading going into 2018

9 Marijuana Penny Stocks to Watch in 2017

If you're looking for the best pot penny stocks, you'll love this list. Effective November of 2016 these stocks became very volatile as there were many voting to legalize marijuana in certain states including Nevada, California, Arizona, Florida, Maine, Arkansas, North Dakota, Montana, and Massachusetts.

While many of the companies in the marijuana sector have doubled and tripled in their pricing, there are also many that wound up to be financial train wrecks that were destined to a long term failure. Many people that are new in trading are spending upward of $500 only to find that they have made a terrible investment.

Struggling to survive and crippled in debt, they have little revenue in which to support the operation. From defunct mining companies that chose to add the word "cannabis" to the name in order to cash in on such a craze, many haven't learned that this isn't going to change things. The end result is the same, if you put the stocks in the same lot, they're still going to fail and someone is going to get caught holding the "hot potato". Once legislation passes, share prices begin to sharply drop.

1. Cara Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: CARA)

In 2004 this company was founded in Shelton Connecticut. At its clinical stage, the biopharmaceutical company has developed many products that target the peripheral nervous system. I.V. CR845, the lead product for Cara, is in Phase III clinical trials. These are designed to treat postoperative pain in adults. This pain is in the acute pain stage. The company is also working in the development of lead molecules that are to selectively modulate the peripheral CB receptors while not targeting the CNS cannabinoid receptors. The most advanced form of the CB compound is the CR701. This is the current stage of preclinical development for the treatment of neuropathic as well as inflammatory pain.

The largest benefit of this is the development of the marijuana based analgesics as they work toward the CB2 receptors. The analysts are overly confident that in spite of the fact that the stocks have dropped, they will make a strong comeback. They began with a target price of $20.33 and the current price is $5.97.

2. Aurora Cannabis In Com NPV (OTCMKTS: ACBFF)

Based in Vancouver, this company is engaged in both cultivations as well as harvesting and the selling medical marijuana in the country of Canada. Using water from Canadian Rocky Mountains it brings the cannabis plants to harvest in a 55,200-foot facility.

Offering high-quality medical cannabis the company is pricing the products at $8 per gram strain and at $5 per gram composite for patients. It boasts free shipping anywhere in Canada and the stock has grown over 90 percent since the start of the year.

3. The canopy of Growth Corp. Com NPV (OTCMKTS: TWMJF)

The Canopy of Growth and Corporation, formerly called Tweed Marijuana Inc., is by and far a large producer of all medical cannabis in the country of Canada that is marketed under the Tweed and the Bedrocan brands. With over half-a-million square feet of greenhouses indoors, this company acquired Bedrocan Cannabis Corporation in 2015 for about $58 million. As of current, the price grew 37.81 percent.

4. Zynerba Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: ZYNE)

This pharmaceutical company was founded in 2007 and focuses on the development and commercializing synthetic cannabinoid therapeutics that are created and developed for transdermal delivery. Two of the candidates are the ZYN002 AND THE ZYN001 forms. ZYN002 is a synthetic cannabidiol (CBD). The permeation enhanced gel for the transdermal delivery has designed the product to be delivered with only once or twice per day dosing.

The ZYN001 form enables the transdermal delivery via a patch. It is used on the arm, the back or the thigh. It's being studied for treating conditions like fibromyalgia and peripheral neuropathy. Stock pricing has moderately grown this year and it's risen 6.45 percent as of date. Current' price is $10.23 and the target price is $30.25.

5. American Cannabis Company Inc (OTCMKTS: AMMJ)

Incorporated in 2001, this company offers solutions for cannabis businesses in both the United States and Canada. There are two main components of the company operations: The advisory and consulting component and the sale of the products and the equipment for the clients in the cannabis industry.

Offering consulting services such as commercial cannabis business planning services and the license applications as well as the cultivation and the building of the consulting. This includes cannabis regulatory compliance and compliance audits as well as the business growth strategies and monitoring services. Additionally, the company offers up products and equipment like Satchel, SoHum, and Living Soil as well as High-Density, Racking System and lastly, The Cultivation Cube.

6. Cannabis Sativa Inc (OTCMKTS: CBDS)

Based out of Nevada, and in operation for around 12 years, this company just recently went public. Engaged in the development and the promotional work of natural cannabis products, they have both licenses for medical strains of cannabis like NZT and a lozenge that delivers the cannabis as well as a trauma cream.

7. Medical Marijuana Inc (OTCMKTS: MJNA)

Still in the development stage, yet incorporated in 2005, this company has a wide range of services, products, and technology. All of this is geared toward the medical marijuana and the industrial hemp sectors. It includes all cannabinoid based products as well as cannabis chewing gum and new and innovative extraction technologies as well as isolated high-value extracts that are designed, created and developed for pharmaceutical as well as cosmetics and nutritional industry.

8. Canna Securities

Regardless of whether you're buying Canna Securities or stock will be dependent on the prospects of the cannabis business. Canna Securities (NASDAQ: CSAX) has stood out clearly as a stock of marijuana that appears to have no solid prospects. With their focus no directly on the marijuana itself, it's a sure win.

CSA or Canna Security American was created in the year 2009 in order to meet the growing needs of the evolving medical industry from a legal standpoint of compliance. It offers a security aspect. CSA is instrumental in development of the legal cannabis market in Colorado. They worked on the committee for rulemaking and with the Department of Revenue and they helped formulate the regulations in the state of Colorado.

At present, CSA is considered and recognized as a leader in the security and the compliance for the legalization of the cannabis industry. They offer high-quality and dependable solutions which are easily adaptable to meet the ever changing needs and security of the industry. This delivers sustainable growth as they help entrepreneurs to grow and be successful in the new and dynamic market.

From the inception, they've specialized in the engineering of the custom security and to ensure that they are in full compliance with all of the federal and state regulations as well as the local laws. They offer security solutions to all of the cannabis businesses including armed, unarmed guards as well as armored transport. This also includes alarms, door access systems, and video surveillance. It includes security systems and all state licensing consulting.

This extensive list includes armored transport as well as guards that are armed and unarmed. Comprehensive background checks and all site risk assessments. Guards for CSA will dress professionally with appropriate identification and they will all have a military or law enforcement background. With a new fleet of Mercedes-Bens Sprinter vehicles, they are armored with the latest in bullet-resistant technology and all of them are GPS tracked and equipped with 4 point camera systems which offer live transmission at all times as well as streaming footage to the command center.

In this fashion, they can offer traceability for all pickup to drop off locations. They can also offer comprehensive security solutions to the industry for cannabis that is unparalleled.

With services to over 130 clients in over 500 facilities in 14 states where marijuana states CSA is now achieving a 100 percent approval in licensing and rating as well as their consultants. As regulations change they are able to adjust quickly and effectively as more states implement and regulate the dispensary models. They are able to leverage their expertise in compliance with the various security codes and standards as well as the guidelines to offer clients the most innovative and cost-effective security.

As the national leading security firm, they know what the risks are and what to anticipate. They can tailor their services to ensure that there is maximum loss prevention and everything is in legal compliance. We've positioned ourselves in the market as a brand name leader in cannabis security industry.

9. Nutrafuels

Nutrafuels (NASDAQ:NTFU). NutraFuels is a United States manufacturer that is located out of Coconut Creek in Florida. With a facility that has been inspected and it's also been approved by the department of agriculture in Florida, they are FDA registered and they have a 3rd Party cGMP certification. All of the staff are trained and certified in the cGMP requirements.

NutraFuels are all manufactured with the highest quality standards and all of the industry protocols. Their portfolio of companies includes none other than industry CBD Leader Hemp Genix and the Skin Care Manufacturer leaders NF skin. They also include Oral Pro Nutra Spray and Nutra Pro Shot as well as many others. Nutra Fuels has led the industry in the manufacturer of CBD oral sprays and other liquid CBD products.

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You can't just jump into the deep, vast ocean if you don't know how to swim. That is the best analogy for somebody who is too eager to dive into forex trading without much know-how about the business yet. Forex education is necessary for those who want to enter the forex trading scene and succeed.

The appeal of the forex trading business is that it is highly liquid. Its greatest advantage is the huge potential for profits. For people who want to earn big money and think that forex trading is an easy way - they have to think again. In order to become successful in this business, you need a solid forex education to back you up.

Reading a few websites about forex or watching the news as they deliver the forex-related information are not enough. You need to know the terminologies, the processes, the tools conditions and methodologies. Many of those who have been successful have spent a great deal of time studying the market over the years. They have undergone tutorial sessions on forex. They plan their investments based on trends they have established watching the market. The best traders have learned over time how to see disaster and how to respond accordingly. These learned investors know how to profit big time, and how to minimize losses.

Forex education is key in making the soundest of decisions when it comes to forex trading. The market is open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week so there really is a lot of room for making money and a bigger room for losing it - unless you're already a smart investor.

The first step is always to know about the ABCs and 123s. Forex education is the foundation for every transaction you will make. When you lose some, you gain some experience and additional knowledge. Stock this information for future reference, so you would know better next time the same blow comes your way.

Most sessions involved in forex education are programmed to provide beginners and even the more experienced ones with all the tools necessary in buying and selling currencies. Charts, trending, analysis, and interpretation of data are also critical in making it through a forex market day.

Aside from the training sessions, you have to continuously update yourself by digging deeper into what you hear from the news, and what you read from the papers and books about forex. If you read up you will understand what's happening and what the factors that affect the prices are. Economic issues are the main catalysts in forex trading but there are other issues like political events, countrywide sentiments, new laws, natural disasters, and cyclical process in the finance market that affect a countries currency.

A person with a firm foundation on forex education is the likely candidate to reap substantial benefits. But, aside from his intellectual and logical take on things, he should also be emotionally balanced in all his forex investments. He should be able to use his forex education while checking and balancing it with his emotions. A good combination will certainly make one very successful and rich forex investor.

The Best 2018 Marijuana Company Penny Stocks

Marijuana Penny Stock Trading brokers are now becoming cheaper thus making it easier for retail investors to invest their savings. It can be frustrating to find a good trading platform and depends on the type of stocks you plan to trade (whether pinks sheets or OTC), the amount of capital available to you, and how frequently you trade. Each week I receive dozens of emails inquiring about which brokerage to use but it is a challenging question to answer since it involves multiple factors.

Marijuana Penny Stocks going into 2018

3 Important Things to Look Out For

Surcharges: Depending on your broker, most add surcharges to shares less than a dollar. TradeKing charges an additional 1 cent for every share below $2 meaning that if you buy 5,000 shares it will cost you an additional $50. If you don’t keep close watch on those small charges they can easily add up and eat into your potential profits. You should choose a brokerage with a flat commission rate or one that offers sizeable discounts on large orders. For instance eTrade, Charles Schwab, and TD Ameritrade all offer either flat fees or massive discounts and no hidden fees.

Trading Restrictions: You should be capable of trading shares through an online platform and be wary of firms that force you to make your trades over the phone. Some brokers have restrictions in place especially with regards to issues such as short selling your penny stocks.

Volume Restrictions: The number of shares you are ideally allowed to trade is unlimited.

Different brokers have different account minimums, trade restrictions, commissions, and fees. Other important considerations include market maker routes, executions, software/trading platforms, and the quality of customer service. The greatest hindrance is not having sufficient starting capital and brokerages don’t like to deal with poor traders. If you live outside the U.S. in a country such as the U.K. or Australia, finding a penny stock friendly broker will be harder.

Marijuana Penny Stocks have had a negative reputation over the years and for good reason. The vast majority (90%) of those companies represent poor investments that are not something anyone would like to put in a 401k. Most of them are simply shell companies created with a sole purpose of ‘pump and dump’.

Marijuana Penny Stock Trading going into 2018

Etrade

Etrade is an obvious top choice overall since it charges a flat fee and offers outstanding trading software. Currently, Etrade has a promotion where traders with accounts of over $10,000 can trade free for the first 60 days.

The minimum deposit for a cash account is $500 and $2,000 for a margin account. Discounts are offered on large orders and penny stocks have no surcharges. Great research investment tools are available and the executions are very fast.

It is best suited for traders that trade frequently due to the tiered pricing structure, meaning that it is not recommended for non-active investors since they will have to pay additional commissions. The customer service is below average when compared to others while 24/7 phone and email support is available. The basics of the stock market are taught through video lessons.

The major limitation is that it does not accept traders from some countries. It is currently Tim Sykes favorite broker.

Interactive Brokers

Interactive Brokers might have poor customer support but are still your best bet if you plan to short shares priced below $2. They have some of the best borrows for Cannabis Penny Stock Trading even though shares for shorting go fast.

Fees are levied for canceling or modifying an order and a monthly inactivity fee of $20 is charged. Unless you are a day trader, the commissions can be expensive. Interactive Brokers traders comprise mainly of massive institutions and high net worth individuals.

Unlike Etrade, Interactive Brokers accepts international traders and does not discriminate against particular countries.

TD Ameritrade

This broker has been operating for more than 40 years. In 2009, Ameritrade took over Thinkorswim. The broker has a solid trading platform with helpful charting tools as well as tutorial options to help you get started. In spite of this, their trading platform has experienced minor technical errors in the past leaving those customers that were looking to exit trades quite angry.

TD Ameritrade has no inactivity or monthly fees making it perfect for long term investors. Trade execution is great and the borrows are decent if you would like to short penny stocks. The broker offers free paper trading demo, which is great for beginners looking to test strategies and get a feel of the market.

The main drawback of TD Ameritrade is the $9.99 fee, which is much higher than that charged by other brokers. It can be argued that by charging more than the competition they are able to offer better customer support or it could be that they are greedy like the rest of the players on Wall Street.

SureTrader

One of the best things about SureTrader is the chance to bypass the pattern day trader rule since it is located offshore in the Bahamas. The pattern day trader rule is a rule set by the SEC that does not permit traders with accounts below $25,000 from executing over 4 or 5 day trades over a 5-day business period. This can be quite annoying and makes it hard for traders to grow their accounts fast but still protects day traders from losing money.

Recently, SureTrader’s CEO, Guy Gentille was indicted by the SEC for manipulating penny stocks. It should be noted that while SureTrader was not involved in the schemes this scandal has tainted their reputation. Hearing such news about a company’s CEO would make any trader feel uneasy and for this reason, trading over $2,000 with them is not recommended.

The account minimum is $500 and the charges are $4.95 for every trade for up to 1,000 shares but an ECN fee of .003 is charged for routing. The leverage currently offered is 6-1 and future plans are to increase this to 20-1.

ChoiceTrade

The information pertaining to this company available on Google is very limited and while the company was established in 2000, it does not even have a Wikipedia page.

ChoiceTrade is better suited to OTC stocks and only costs $7 for every OTC trade. The broker has a volume surcharge of 1 percent for any trade over 500,000 shares. There is no account minimum but an inactivity fee of $30 is charged for every quarter.

However, this is not how it works. Patience is needed and you should paper trade for not less than 3 months. Keep in mind that you need to learn before your earn. Once you are ready, it is advisable that you start trading with not less than $2,000. Interactive Brokers and Etrade are the top 2 online penny stock brokers with great reputations.

Marijuana Penny Stock Trading going into 2018

So far as I can tell, President Donald Trump has done little to change the circumstances that led him to declare in April 2016 that the U.S. was headed for "a very massive recession." His promise of "big league" tax reform has been described by a lobbyist as "a big nothing burger."

Trump's opinion as a candidate could be of importance to you as an investor. He said last year: "It's a terrible time right now to invest in the stock market."

Hear! Hear!

If Trump was right then, his conclusion would seem to be even more valid now.

Today's cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio, or CAPE, is 29.27, as compared to an already high 25.92 in April of last year when Trump warned that the market was dangerous.

Under sane and sound conditions, the performance of individual stocks is determined by the execution of their business plans - not by political authorities or the unelected mandarins at the Federal Reserve.

As they talk about "draining the swamp" of crony capitalism, politicians should not be manipulating your stock portfolio. But they are. Or at least they are trying.

Historical Bubbles

I have made a hobby of studying past stock market manias looking for clues to help you get a better view of when the current bubble may end, and the likely consequences. As you know, we have not experienced sane and sound conditions for years.

Quite the contrary. As you are aware, we are in the midst of the biggest stock bubble in American history. In all probability, it is the biggest stock bubble in human history.

Some might suppose that the Wall Street market crash of 1929 ended the biggest bubble ever. It was the first stock mania in the era of American hegemony. The Allied victory in World War I, in conjunction with the impairment of British financial capabilities, set the stage for euphoric optimism in the Roaring Twenties.

President Herbert Hoover, who was praised by economist John Maynard Keynes as the only person to emerge from the Versailles Peace Conference with his reputation enhanced, was widely despised for causing the Great Depression. It is now forgotten that the worldwide depression supposedly started by Hoover's inability to head off the stock market collapse of 1929 was already underway as early as 1927.

Commodity-producing economies on the periphery, such as Argentina, Australia and Brazil, along with troubled European economies, notably Germany, had already sunk into depression.

The excess capacity in commodity production, stimulated by the breakdown of trade in World War I, depressed prices for producers.

This commodity depression was reflected in the crash of the London stock market, which mainly capitalized the operations of hard and soft commodity producers throughout the British Empire, and preceded Wall Street's October 1929 plunge by a month.

An Inescapable Bubble

Weakness in commodities is likely to precede the next big crash. Of course, that opens the door to trouble at almost any time. Industrial commodities, particularly iron, copper and oil, have been chronically weak.

Unlike the run-up to the 1929 crash, the current weakness in commodity prices is mainly attributable to the opening of the Chinese economy, in conjunction with the quantitative easing policies of the Fed and central banks in other advanced economies.

Those actions resulted in the lowest interest rates seen in 5,000 years! Add in the demand from China, ramped up by promiscuous credit expansion, and you have a recipe for massive commodity expansion and overcapacity.

China consumed more cement between 2011 and 2013 than what was used in the United States in the entire 20th century. Similarly exaggerated demand for iron, copper and other industrial commodities underpinned huge expansions of capacity and debt levels.

A recent report by Andrew Brown, partner for macro and strategy at ShoreVest Capital Partners, concludes that it is China's turn to deflate its credit excesses. These are arguably the most extreme in history. China created debt equivalent to 139% of its gross domestic product between the first quarter of 2009 and the third quarter of 2014 when Chinese growth peaked. This debt explosion was far in excess of the debt created in other major credit bubbles around the globe.

China's excess credit, as measured by the Bank for International Settlements, is equivalent to about $3.1 trillion. The bubble is unquestionably a feature of current stock markets.

A Crash Is Coming

Once a bubble has been inflated, I know of no example where one was calmly deflated, short of a crash. Of course, that doesn't mean that everyone must be equally affected.

Note that some experts have suggested that the late 1990s dot-com boom was a bigger bubble than today because the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio for the Nasdaq in 1999 was higher. As true as that statistic is, it paints a false picture. The reason?

Over the last 18 years, the powers that be have tweaked accounting standards to permit companies a greater latitude in declaring fanciful earnings. The result?

If you adjusted the earnings of S&P 500 companies to reflect the generally accepted accounting principles in force in 1999, today's earnings would shrivel by at least half.

That would make the market about two times more expensive than it already is. So a P/E of 29 today, using 1999's accounting standards, would be 58 or higher!

Prudence suggests backing out of unhedged passive long investments in the U.S. market.

Cannabis Penny Stock Trading going into 2018 2018

So far as I can tell, President Donald Trump has done little to change the circumstances that led him to declare in April 2016 that the U.S. was headed for "a very massive recession." His promise of "big league" tax reform has been described by a lobbyist as "a big nothing burger."

Trump's opinion as a candidate could be of importance to you as an investor. He said last year: "It's a terrible time right now to invest in the stock market."

Hear! Hear!

If Trump was right then, his conclusion would seem to be even more valid now.

Today's cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio, or CAPE, is 29.27, as compared to an already high 25.92 in April of last year when Trump warned that the market was dangerous.

Under sane and sound conditions, the performance of individual stocks is determined by the execution of their business plans - not by political authorities or the unelected mandarins at the Federal Reserve.

As they talk about "draining the swamp" of crony capitalism, politicians should not be manipulating your stock portfolio. But they are. Or at least they are trying.

Historical Bubbles

I have made a hobby of studying past stock market manias looking for clues to help you get a better view of when the current bubble may end, and the likely consequences. As you know, we have not experienced sane and sound conditions for years.

Quite the contrary. As you are aware, we are in the midst of the biggest stock bubble in American history. In all probability, it is the biggest stock bubble in human history.

Some might suppose that the Wall Street market crash of 1929 ended the biggest bubble ever. It was the first stock mania in the era of American hegemony. The Allied victory in World War I, in conjunction with the impairment of British financial capabilities, set the stage for euphoric optimism in the Roaring Twenties.

President Herbert Hoover, who was praised by economist John Maynard Keynes as the only person to emerge from the Versailles Peace Conference with his reputation enhanced, was widely despised for causing the Great Depression. It is now forgotten that the worldwide depression supposedly started by Hoover's inability to head off the stock market collapse of 1929 was already underway as early as 1927.

Commodity-producing economies on the periphery, such as Argentina, Australia and Brazil, along with troubled European economies, notably Germany, had already sunk into depression.

The excess capacity in commodity production, stimulated by the breakdown of trade in World War I, depressed prices for producers.

This commodity depression was reflected in the crash of the London stock market, which mainly capitalized the operations of hard and soft commodity producers throughout the British Empire, and preceded Wall Street's October 1929 plunge by a month.

An Inescapable Bubble

Weakness in commodities is likely to precede the next big crash. Of course, that opens the door to trouble at almost any time. Industrial commodities, particularly iron, copper and oil, have been chronically weak.

Unlike the run-up to the 1929 crash, the current weakness in commodity prices is mainly attributable to the opening of the Chinese economy, in conjunction with the quantitative easing policies of the Fed and central banks in other advanced economies.

Those actions resulted in the lowest interest rates seen in 5,000 years! Add in the demand from China, ramped up by promiscuous credit expansion, and you have a recipe for massive commodity expansion and overcapacity.

China consumed more cement between 2011 and 2013 than what was used in the United States in the entire 20th century. Similarly exaggerated demand for iron, copper and other industrial commodities underpinned huge expansions of capacity and debt levels.

A recent report by Andrew Brown, partner for macro and strategy at ShoreVest Capital Partners, concludes that it is China's turn to deflate its credit excesses. These are arguably the most extreme in history. China created debt equivalent to 139% of its gross domestic product between the first quarter of 2009 and the third quarter of 2014 when Chinese growth peaked. This debt explosion was far in excess of the debt created in other major credit bubbles around the globe.

China's excess credit, as measured by the Bank for International Settlements, is equivalent to about $3.1 trillion. The bubble is unquestionably a feature of current stock markets.

A Crash Is Coming

Once a bubble has been inflated, I know of no example where one was calmly deflated, short of a crash. Of course, that doesn't mean that everyone must be equally affected.

Note that some experts have suggested that the late 1990s dot-com boom was a bigger bubble than today because the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio for the Nasdaq in 1999 was higher. As true as that statistic is, it paints a false picture. The reason?

Over the last 18 years, the powers that be have tweaked accounting standards to permit companies a greater latitude in declaring fanciful earnings. The result?

If you adjusted the earnings of S&P 500 companies to reflect the generally accepted accounting principles in force in 1999, today's earnings would shrivel by at least half.

That would make the market about two times more expensive than it already is. So a P/E of 29 today, using 1999's accounting standards, would be 58 or higher!

Prudence suggests backing out of unhedged passive long investments in the U.S. market.

The Best 2018 Marijuana Company Penny Stocks

Marijuana Penny Stock Trading brokers are now becoming cheaper thus making it easier for retail investors to invest their savings. It can be frustrating to find a good trading platform and depends on the type of stocks you plan to trade (whether pinks sheets or OTC), the amount of capital available to you, and how frequently you trade. Each week I receive dozens of emails inquiring about which brokerage to use but it is a challenging question to answer since it involves multiple factors.

Marijuana Penny Stocks going into 2018

3 Important Things to Look Out For

Surcharges: Depending on your broker, most add surcharges to shares less than a dollar. TradeKing charges an additional 1 cent for every share below $2 meaning that if you buy 5,000 shares it will cost you an additional $50. If you don’t keep close watch on those small charges they can easily add up and eat into your potential profits. You should choose a brokerage with a flat commission rate or one that offers sizeable discounts on large orders. For instance eTrade, Charles Schwab, and TD Ameritrade all offer either flat fees or massive discounts and no hidden fees.

Trading Restrictions: You should be capable of trading shares through an online platform and be wary of firms that force you to make your trades over the phone. Some brokers have restrictions in place especially with regards to issues such as short selling your penny stocks.

Volume Restrictions: The number of shares you are ideally allowed to trade is unlimited.

Different brokers have different account minimums, trade restrictions, commissions, and fees. Other important considerations include market maker routes, executions, software/trading platforms, and the quality of customer service. The greatest hindrance is not having sufficient starting capital and brokerages don’t like to deal with poor traders. If you live outside the U.S. in a country such as the U.K. or Australia, finding a penny stock friendly broker will be harder.

Marijuana Penny Stocks have had a negative reputation over the years and for good reason. The vast majority (90%) of those companies represent poor investments that are not something anyone would like to put in a 401k. Most of them are simply shell companies created with a sole purpose of ‘pump and dump’.

Marijuana Penny Stock Trading going into 2018

Etrade

Etrade is an obvious top choice overall since it charges a flat fee and offers outstanding trading software. Currently, Etrade has a promotion where traders with accounts of over $10,000 can trade free for the first 60 days.

The minimum deposit for a cash account is $500 and $2,000 for a margin account. Discounts are offered on large orders and penny stocks have no surcharges. Great research investment tools are available and the executions are very fast.

It is best suited for traders that trade frequently due to the tiered pricing structure, meaning that it is not recommended for non-active investors since they will have to pay additional commissions. The customer service is below average when compared to others while 24/7 phone and email support is available. The basics of the stock market are taught through video lessons.

The major limitation is that it does not accept traders from some countries. It is currently Tim Sykes favorite broker.

Interactive Brokers

Interactive Brokers might have poor customer support but are still your best bet if you plan to short shares priced below $2. They have some of the best borrows for Cannabis Penny Stock Trading even though shares for shorting go fast.

Fees are levied for canceling or modifying an order and a monthly inactivity fee of $20 is charged. Unless you are a day trader, the commissions can be expensive. Interactive Brokers traders comprise mainly of massive institutions and high net worth individuals.

Unlike Etrade, Interactive Brokers accepts international traders and does not discriminate against particular countries.

TD Ameritrade

This broker has been operating for more than 40 years. In 2009, Ameritrade took over Thinkorswim. The broker has a solid trading platform with helpful charting tools as well as tutorial options to help you get started. In spite of this, their trading platform has experienced minor technical errors in the past leaving those customers that were looking to exit trades quite angry.

TD Ameritrade has no inactivity or monthly fees making it perfect for long term investors. Trade execution is great and the borrows are decent if you would like to short penny stocks. The broker offers free paper trading demo, which is great for beginners looking to test strategies and get a feel of the market.

The main drawback of TD Ameritrade is the $9.99 fee, which is much higher than that charged by other brokers. It can be argued that by charging more than the competition they are able to offer better customer support or it could be that they are greedy like the rest of the players on Wall Street.

SureTrader

One of the best things about SureTrader is the chance to bypass the pattern day trader rule since it is located offshore in the Bahamas. The pattern day trader rule is a rule set by the SEC that does not permit traders with accounts below $25,000 from executing over 4 or 5 day trades over a 5-day business period. This can be quite annoying and makes it hard for traders to grow their accounts fast but still protects day traders from losing money.

Recently, SureTrader’s CEO, Guy Gentille was indicted by the SEC for manipulating penny stocks. It should be noted that while SureTrader was not involved in the schemes this scandal has tainted their reputation. Hearing such news about a company’s CEO would make any trader feel uneasy and for this reason, trading over $2,000 with them is not recommended.

The account minimum is $500 and the charges are $4.95 for every trade for up to 1,000 shares but an ECN fee of .003 is charged for routing. The leverage currently offered is 6-1 and future plans are to increase this to 20-1.

ChoiceTrade

The information pertaining to this company available on Google is very limited and while the company was established in 2000, it does not even have a Wikipedia page.

ChoiceTrade is better suited to OTC stocks and only costs $7 for every OTC trade. The broker has a volume surcharge of 1 percent for any trade over 500,000 shares. There is no account minimum but an inactivity fee of $30 is charged for every quarter.

However, this is not how it works. Patience is needed and you should paper trade for not less than 3 months. Keep in mind that you need to learn before your earn. Once you are ready, it is advisable that you start trading with not less than $2,000. Interactive Brokers and Etrade are the top 2 online penny stock brokers with great reputations.

Marijuana Penny Stock Trading going into 2018

By all accounts, the nation's economy hasn't been this bad since the Great Depression in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The stock market has been like the Tower of Terror at Disney World, plummeting nearly 800 points in a heartbeat, some prominent companies are looking to the federal government for a very large life jacket, others are being snapped up by the competition at relatively bargain rates, credit availability is tightening, and everybody is wondering how it will affect them.

Call us crazy, but the volatile stock market fluctuations, the extreme turbulence, and people's growing unrest (to put it mildly!) are actually good for all. Many times, we only embrace elemental change when we are highly motivated or in great discomfort. We think we can all agree that we are all feeling pretty uncomfortable right now. Which makes it an ideal time to look beneath the surface, identify the real issues, and devise solutions.

Times like what we're in pull back the curtain on a structure's flaws - much like Dorothy did in the Wizard of Oz - and force us to take a deeper look at the problems. Our fear is literally exposed, driving us to search for its root. Quick fixes and band-aids that only address surface problems - like the $700 billion federal government bailout that was recently passed - might provide some temporary relief but are nowhere near a long-term answer.

What's compounding the situation for Americans and for an increasing number of people around the globe is that there is no quick fix. A lot of this stems from the McDonald's mentality that many of us have. We're hungry, so we drive to a fast food joint, order our meal through the drive-up, pay for it at the first window, pick it up at the next window, and then scarf down the fatty, salty, somewhat empty calories as quickly as we can.

An occasional quick trip to the drive through is a nice break from one's cooking chores and it's certainly convenient but it wouldn't be a good idea to make greasy spoons your daily destination to fuel your body. Ever see filmmaker Morgan Spurlock in 2004's controversial Super Size Me?

Well, we and our national economy are at about the same point Spurlock was after eating three squares a day at McDonald's for 30 consecutive days without working out - inflated, busting out of our collective pants, hypertensive, and an internal mess.

After years of hedge fund, money market, and portfolio managers driving the economy and artificially boosting a lot of companies' stocks - and thereby rocketing some CEOs' compensation into the stratosphere - out of greed and a desire to rake in monstrous performance commissions, we find that this economic model is finally starting to collapse under its own bulbous weight.

One of the stanchions that has supported this top-heavy financial picture has been consumer confidence. Americans gladly went along with the market fluctuations and willingly paid their brokers the inflated prices on their stock tips. Overall the underlying financials of most investments were strong, but then Americans began to read and believe the media reports that the economy was beginning to go in the tank even before the onset of the sub-prime mortgage crisis.

Media repetition does work and as the elements of a perfect financial storm coalesced with the near demise of AIG, the Lehman bankruptcy, and the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailouts, the confidence of Americans soured into disbelief and then borderline paranoia. This is where we pick up the story.

The $700 billion question now is "How can we pull ourselves out of the seeming doom and gloom to fix the inner workings of the American economic engine?" The answer is by fixing what's on the inside of each us first! You heard us right!

Let us explain ... You see, what's on the outside is merely an outpicturing of what's on the inside. And a big component of that is our values.

Two of our predominant economic values have been instant gratification and greed. Americans have become spoiled and that has been no more evident than in the amount of stuff we buy. Window shopping trips turn into buying orgies of things that we think might be nice to have but don't really need. We are compelled to keep up with the Joneses by having matching luxury SUVs, the latest electronic gadgets, or having our homes decorated just so to impress whoever it is we expect to visit. One of our family friends frequently takes walks in her South Carolina neighborhood the night before the recycle trucks make their early morning rounds and she commented how amazed she is with the empty boxes of stuff she sees in the trash bins every week. Whether or not we can afford the shopping bags full of products that we cram into our new vehicles is merely a passing consideration for many. We want what we want and we want it NOW!

Unfortunately, cash isn't usually the currency of choice. Rather, it is the readily available and easily obtainable temptress, credit. Don't have the cash for that new coat you want today? Not to worry, just charge it! Credit cards maxed out and looking for another card to leverage your spending habits? Just wait until the mail comes tomorrow and brings another four or five credit card offers that lure us with instant approval and low rates, among other perks.

If you can budget your finances, adhere to that budget, arrange to pay off your credit card balances in full when they are due, and take other fiscally responsible steps, credit is a great thing. However, if you're struggling to make the minimum payments and racking up interest charges each month, not so much. As time has passed, more Americans have fallen into the latter category than the former.

Like a drug addict who quickly moves from marijuana and Ecstasy to cocaine and then heroin in search of a bigger high, Americans have fueled their credit habit by avariciously turning their gaze onto their homes. Transforming their residences into their personal ATMs, Americans siphoned equity from their homes at an annual rate of $700 billion (number sound familiar?) during the third quarter last year, according to a February 11, 2008 Business Week cover story.

The viability of home equity loans has nosedived as have housing prices. Some experts see the potential for an unprecedented 25%-30% drop in housing prices over the next two years, which could put a $5 trillion-sized dent into household wealth; would mean that two out of every three people who bought in the past year would owe more than their homes would be worth, preventing them from taking cash out even if they wanted to; and would drastically reduce the number of carpenters, real estate agents, mortgage brokers, and furniture salespeople.

Lenders, who boosted the housing boom by significantly relaxing their standards, are now contributing to the crisis by once again requiring down payments and abolishing no income verification mortgages. Their greed in chasing the almighty dollar a few years ago has now resulted in the virtual shutting down of the sub-prime mortgage business, a scarcity of home equity loans and credit lines, and jumbo loans that are commanding premium rates.

Taking a hit from the housing crisis is the automobile industry, which is a major force in the American economy and has many different businesses supporting it through parts and materials. Lenders are pulling back as borrowers are falling behind on their car payments at higher levels than in past downturns. J. D. Power has projected approximately 14.95 million vehicles being sold in 2008, down from 16.2 million last year, the lowest level since 1995. This is serious, indeed, since the automobile is considered to be a person's 2nd largest purchase, behind a home.

As the American economy (one could argue its way of life) sways back and forth on top of its tremulous foundation like a drunken sailor out to sea, it should be a wake up call to all of us. It should propel us to look in the mirror to figure out what we need to address inside ourselves to make us feel better.

Two areas that warrant scrutiny are choice and personal responsibility. While many are still prone to point fingers, those who are moving on realize the role they've played in events and that there are changes they need to make to ensure that the events aren't repeated. They also know that we have choices to make every moment and that what we choose to think or do this moment is intricately intertwined with what transpires in the next. Those who choose to embrace their personal power choose to be victors, those who don't are victims. Which are you?

Another obvious issue that merits examination has to do with lack. Many people try to compensate for a lack of confidence on the inside by accumulating stuff on the outside. They try to use clothes, jewelry, jobs, automobiles, and homes as shields so those around them aren't able to see a perceived lack of mastery or even competence in one area or another. These individuals think that securing a corner office, belonging to an exclusive country club, or living in a tony neighborhood will enable them to feel better about themselves.

Just like the multi-billion dollar federal bailout, these baubles are merely band-aids that deflect attention away from where it needs to be focused. Trust us, we tried the cosmetic approach and it does not work. We had the grand 10,000-square foot home in bucolic Cambridge, living down the street from a former Dynasty TV star; drove an ethereal BMW 7-series; and Don had a prestigious Vice President of Sales and Marketing job for a small business membership organization. But we hadn't done the work on ourselves so our lives unraveled like the Mets in a September pennant race. We couldn't sustain the house, which was evolving into a money pit; we were unable to afford the car; and the job was a terrible fit.

It's when we fix what's truly broken that life's miracles begin to unfold for us. As we feel better about whom we really are, our relationships start to excel, we become aware of career opportunities that will enable us to do that which we love, we finally can appreciate all the gifts in our life that we previously overlooked, and, amazingly, financial prosperity flows to us as we become less and less concerned with it. Our preoccupation with lack transforms into joyful acceptance of abundance.

And something else happens when we're in alignment and not stifled by fear - we allow our creative juices to flow effortlessly throughout all areas of our being. While fear constricts our innate creative nature, the lack of it encourages us to think of new and exciting ways to enhance our relationships, make our mark at our job, have fun, thrive and not just survive somewhat challenging times, and, best of all, be good to ourselves. We're also able to manifest that which we want in life quicker and more easily!

Within short order, it becomes a wonderful chain reaction. Since what we are is what we think, the world around us starts to undergo a startling metamorphosis. Our newly emerging thoughts about ourselves change our beliefs and as our inner world shifts, so does our outer world. As we become more in tune with who we are, we begin to act differently and those around us respond to us differently. As the negative thoughts are washed away, they are replaced by uplifting thoughts and feelings that generate more of the same. They can't help it, that's the law! That is, it's the Law of Attraction, which states, in essence, that likes attracts like.

A perfect example is getting up in the morning and stubbing your toe, popping a button on your blouse, realizing your favorite slacks don't fit, or getting cut off in traffic. A lot of us stay upset at those events and our day goes downhill from there, spiraling into nonstop annoyances, inconveniences, and slights. However, if we took the time to let the events go and recalibrate our thinking to a positive frequency, there's no place to go but up! Remember, thoughts do become things!

Also keep in mind that thoughts take time to take form. Patience is a virtue, and it also seems to be a foreign concept to many of us walking the malls and surfing the Web. As we mentioned earlier, it's this need for instant gratification that helped put our country into the delicate economic condition that it finds itself. Professional sports teams have also tried the fast track by signing high-priced free agents (see New York Yankees) or trading for high profile players (ditto) to capture championships, only to come up short. One of the rare exceptions was the 2007-08 NBA champion Boston Celtics.

Rather, life is a process and persistence is an essential ingredient. We didn't suddenly wake up and find ourselves in this financial quagmire overnight and we're not going to miraculously rise and shine tomorrow morning to gum drops and lollipops. It's going to take time for our country to find the fundamental flaws that plague its economic system and it's going to require our collective consciousness to pull it up by its bootstraps.

That's why, we think, consumer confidence is in the sewer drain, our collective fear is palpable, and the stock market is performing like a possessed yoyo, finishing up 900 points one day and down 700 points a couple of days later. There's no quick fix this time and no one seems quite sure about what precisely to do to keep the ship from sinking. This time, we can't just pop a frozen meal into the microwave and expect it to be done in three minutes.

Unless we become more reflective and introspective and fully realize what's truly important in our lives, it won't matter what is done to fix the American economy because it won't last and we'll find ourselves in a similar, if not worse, predicament. The signs are clear and they are calling for an in-depth re-evaluation of that which guides us.

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You can't just jump into the deep, vast ocean if you don't know how to swim. That is the best analogy for somebody who is too eager to dive into forex trading without much know-how about the business yet. Forex education is necessary for those who want to enter the forex trading scene and succeed.

The appeal of the forex trading business is that it is highly liquid. Its greatest advantage is the huge potential for profits. For people who want to earn big money and think that forex trading is an easy way - they have to think again. In order to become successful in this business, you need a solid forex education to back you up.

Reading a few websites about forex or watching the news as they deliver the forex-related information are not enough. You need to know the terminologies, the processes, the tools conditions and methodologies. Many of those who have been successful have spent a great deal of time studying the market over the years. They have undergone tutorial sessions on forex. They plan their investments based on trends they have established watching the market. The best traders have learned over time how to see disaster and how to respond accordingly. These learned investors know how to profit big time, and how to minimize losses.

Forex education is key in making the soundest of decisions when it comes to forex trading. The market is open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week so there really is a lot of room for making money and a bigger room for losing it - unless you're already a smart investor.

The first step is always to know about the ABCs and 123s. Forex education is the foundation for every transaction you will make. When you lose some, you gain some experience and additional knowledge. Stock this information for future reference, so you would know better next time the same blow comes your way.

Most sessions involved in forex education are programmed to provide beginners and even the more experienced ones with all the tools necessary in buying and selling currencies. Charts, trending, analysis, and interpretation of data are also critical in making it through a forex market day.

Aside from the training sessions, you have to continuously update yourself by digging deeper into what you hear from the news, and what you read from the papers and books about forex. If you read up you will understand what's happening and what the factors that affect the prices are. Economic issues are the main catalysts in forex trading but there are other issues like political events, countrywide sentiments, new laws, natural disasters, and cyclical process in the finance market that affect a countries currency.

A person with a firm foundation on forex education is the likely candidate to reap substantial benefits. But, aside from his intellectual and logical take on things, he should also be emotionally balanced in all his forex investments. He should be able to use his forex education while checking and balancing it with his emotions. A good combination will certainly make one very successful and rich forex investor.